The secret speech / Tom Rob Smith.
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TextPublisher: London : Simon & Schuster, 2011Copyright date: ©2010Description: 475 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780857204097 (paperback)Subject(s): 1953-1985 | Secret service -- Soviet Union -- Fiction | Suspense fiction | Historical fiction | Demidov, Leo (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 -- Fiction | Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985 -- Fiction | Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985 | Soviet UnionGenre/Form: Crime -- Adult fiction -- Print | Suspense fiction | Suspense fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction). | Fiction. | History. | Thrillers (Fiction). DDC classification: 823.92 Other classification: I561.45 Summary: Soviet Union, 1956: Stalin is dead. With his passing, a violent regime is beginning to fracture - leaving behind a society where the police are the criminals, and the criminals are innocent. The catalyst comes when a secret manifesto composed by Stalin's successor Khrushchev is distributed to the entire nation. Its message: Stalin was a tyrant and a murderer. Its promise: The Soviet Union will transform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget Stalin's tyranny so easily, that demand revenge of the most appalling nature.
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Includes interview with Tom Rob Smith.
Includes bibliographical references.
Soviet Union, 1956: Stalin is dead. With his passing, a violent regime is beginning to fracture - leaving behind a society where the police are the criminals, and the criminals are innocent. The catalyst comes when a secret manifesto composed by Stalin's successor Khrushchev is distributed to the entire nation. Its message: Stalin was a tyrant and a murderer. Its promise: The Soviet Union will transform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget Stalin's tyranny so easily, that demand revenge of the most appalling nature.
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